Cells Quotes - Page 3

• Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while

  Groucho Marx

  Birthday, Cute Life, Cynical

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• Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.

  Nancy Johnson

  House, Support, Research

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• Most of the scientific community believes that for the full potential of embryonic stem cell research to be reached, the number of cell lines readily available to scientists must increase.

  Ron Kind

  Believe, Numbers, Community

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• I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Support, Research, Stem Cell

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• I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research.

  Eliot Engel

  Support, Research, Stem Cell

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• The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

  George W. Bush

  Powerful, Iraq, Prison

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.

  David Hackworth

  Cancer, Fighting, Body

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• You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

  Jim Lehrer

  Phones, Want, Cell Phone

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• I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Thinking, Phones, Important

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• In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost.

  Maurice Strong

  Japan, Car, Cost

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• If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.

  Herbert Spencer

  Science, Men, Years

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “The Principles of Biology”, p.350

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• Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

  Max Delbruck

  Science, Years, Ancestor

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• I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

  Jonas Salk

  Cancer, Viruses, Would Be

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• The quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of the life of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, the resulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy cell life-nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life for an individual.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Strong

  Tony Robbins (2010). “Unlimited Power a Black Choice”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.

  Peter Agre

  Enthusiasm, Energy, Biology

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• The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody

  Oliver North

  Phones, Rely Upon, Email

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• Fuel cell vehicles run on clean-burning hydrogen and are three times more efficient than the traditional combustible engine.

  Albert Wynn

  Running, Hydrogen Fuel, Three

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• Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.

  Patti Davis

  Father, Alzheimer's, Funeral

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• Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

  Tom Harkin

  Support, Promise, Suffering

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• It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.

  Albert Claude

  Struggle, Experiments, Our Lives

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• Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.

  Albert Claude

  Men, May, Action

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• The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.

  Lois Capps

  Research, Refusal, Tragic

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• There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Differences, Inches, Chamber

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• A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.

  Virginia Foxx

  Skins, Body, Becoming

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• Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.

  Jay Leno

  Believe, Science, Decision

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